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>I don't know where Jim's information came from.
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>The only restriction would be that the non-RDF stuff comes before the RDF
>stuff, although it may even be possible to finesse that.
Jim gets his information from [1] which is the grammar section of the
RDF/XML syntax specification which states the rdf:RDF must be the
ROOT of the RDF/XML document - as it says there
>5.2 doc root(document-element=RDF, children=list(RDF))
Further, the editor of that document was in my office as I wrote
the message, following a multihour discussion where we debated best
way to do these things (believe it or not, I do do my homework
Peter!). It is possible that we have identified an incocnsistency in
the new RDF documents - but my guess is it gets down to the issue of
what is an XML document which has RDF in it, and what is an RDF/XML
document (i.e. those with MIME type "application/rdf+xml" - the
proposed type for RDF/XML).
I will see the editor again later today and will ask him about this
inconsistency.
-JH
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/#section-grammar-summary
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